Attendance

The Importance of School Attendance

Students are expected to be on time to all classes. Students are to be inside the classroom when the tardy bell rings. Students arriving late to school should report to the attendance office, located in the main office.Students will be given five (5) minutes during each passing period; do not loiter in the hallways.

Tardiness to class is not acceptable. Students arriving to a class after the tardy bell has rung will receive consequences aligned with the McLain High School Tardy Policy. A student who is more than 30 minutes late to class will be counted absent from that class.

Classrooms will be locked when the tardy bell rings. Teachers will issue a tardy if a student is late to class. They will mark tardy in PowerSchool.

A student will be given the opportunity to make up work missed due to an absence. However, it is the responsibility of the student, immediately upon his or her return to class from an absence, to request and complete any assignments and or assessments missed because of an absence. Teachers are to have regular make-up policies in place and out lined in their syllabi.

When students have documented/medical absences on file, they are to be given extended deadlines for completing assignments. All deadline dates must be fair and reasonable.

Teachers will provide a reasonable amount of time for students to make-up work. A rough standard is one to two days of make-up time for every school day missed. Even so, the district generally allows the teacher to determine what is reasonable, given the particular circumstances of a student’s absence and the activities missed. Missed tests and quizzes may be made up outside of class time, usually before or after school or during lunch.

If a student is going to be absent for two or more days in a row, a parent or guardian may contact the counselor for assignments, who, in turn, will contact the teacher for specific work.